COST AND UTILIZATION OF POWER ON FARMS. 
41 
workstock, and for the years 1917 and 1918 amounted to a little over 
2 per cent. 
Feed. — Table 29 shows the average annual feed consumption per 
head in the different areas. The detailed rations for the workstock 
were obtained on only 253 of the 286 farms. On the remaining 33 
farms the value of the feeds consumed was obtained but the amounts 
were not. 
Table 29. — Feed for workstock. 
Average annual feed consumption per 
head. 
-d 
V) 
$ 
as 
o 
8 
£1 
8 
. Area. 
a 
o 
fl 
o 
03 
CO 
o 
03 
xi 
in 
Pasture and grass. 
Stalk pasture. 
Number of 
2 GO 
Number of 
<3 'si 
£1 R 
& 
>> 
a 
| 
CO 
a 
o 
O 
o 
months or 
acres. 
months or 
acres. 
§1 
1 
Madison County, Ohio. 
32 
1.63 
0.13 
2.60 
36.1 
4.6 
/5. 8 months.. 
\3. 2 acres 
14.2 months.. 
12 
20 
15 
} 
1 
S135. 96 
Seneca County, Ohio. . . 
JH 
2.72 
.12 
1.06 
37. 4 
29.2 
5 
I 
160. 25 
(None 
3 
1 
Madison County, Ind. . 
22 
1.66 
1.04 
.22 
37.0 
13. 5 
f5.9 months . . 
\2.3 acres 
13 
9 
3.0 months.. 
None 
1 
21 
|l35. 56 
Montgomery County, 
Ind. 
J56 
1.54 
.98 
.11 
36.2 
23.4 
|5.3 months . . 
\2.1 acres 
[4.2 months.. 
46 
10 
26 
3.0 months.. 
None 
3.1 months.. 
48 
8 
25 
}l23.10 
1 
Livingston County, 111 . 
60 
.47 
2.49 
.02 
39.9 
29.2 
-{2.1 acres 
32 
4.3 acres 
21 
[128 78 
iNone 
2 
None 
14 
[4.1 months.. 
32 
3.3 months . . 
23 
) 
Knox County, 111 
60 
1.15 
1.23 
.04 
38.3 
24.4 
<1.6 acres 
iNone 
21 
7 
2.6 acres '. 
None 
30 
7 
[135. 13 
[4. S months.. 
144 
3.1 months.. 
97 
1 
All 
253 
1.32 
1.22 
.20 
37.8 
22.3 
< 2. 3 acres 
|None 
97 
12 
3.3 acres 
None 
51 
105 
>133. 64 
The feeding practices varied considerably in the different areas. 
In the Ohio areas and on a number of the farms visited in Indiana 
corn stover made up a substantial part of the winter ration of the 
workstock. In Illinois and on the Indiana farms where most of the 
corn was husked from the standing stalk the horses were usually 
turned into the stalk fields when husking was finished, and the stalk 
pasture took the place of the stover. On many farms, especially in 
Ohio and Indiana, the workstock had access to the straw piles, but 
the owners usually considered that the straw thus consumed by the 
horses was of little value and would make no charge for it. When- 
ever the farmers considered that the straw used for bedding had any 
value, this was included in the ration, and no attempt was made to 
differentiate between it and straw used for feed. The large amount of 
straw and the small amount of hay in the ration for Livingston 
County, 111., is due to the fact that in the year 1919 very little hay was 
produced in this county, and on many of the farms the horses had 
been wintered on straw and stalk pasture only. 
On some farms it was rather difficult to obtain an accurate estimate 
of the amount and value of both the grass and stalk pasture which 
